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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>If I understand your question correctly, you have tabular data in an Excel spreadsheet, and you want ParaView to show you this data color coded on a plane. Unfortunately, our ability to read in Excel and other tabular data is a bit underdeveloped right now, so there is no direct way to do this yet. An indirect way is to output the spreadsheet as a space or tab delimited text file and then edit that text file to a VTK image file. Details on the VTK file types are described in the following document posted to the Kitware Wiki.<BR>
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<a href="http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Image:VTK-File-Formats.pdf">http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Image:VTK-File-Formats.pdf</a><BR>
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-Ken<BR>
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On 4/15/08 10:17 AM, "David Goldsmith" <davesg@ufl.edu> wrote:<BR>
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Paraview list,<BR>
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I am new to visualization software and have a very basic question.<BR>
The situation is I have a set of data created in an excel model, a<BR>
set of 100 data points, with an independent variable. I need to<BR>
create an animation of this data set changing over time. I have<BR>
played with Paraview and can create the planes I would like the<BR>
data to appear on, but cannot figure out how to import the data<BR>
onto the planes.<BR>
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Any help would be appreciated, again, I'm new to this!<BR>
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David<BR>
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